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...lecture on the Sculptured Funeral Monuments of Ancient Athens. Only the monuments of independent Athens were considered, for when Athens ceased to be free sumptuary laws were enacted against sculptures on tombstones, and for some time these laws were strictly enforced. The period reviewed by the lecturer was therefore one of about 250 years. A number of monuments of the sixth century have been preserved. They show the rudeness and stiffness of archaic art. The design is very simple consisting of tall narrow slab, with a single figure of the dead man in relief, and always in profile. There...
...English B a talk on literature will be given in Sever 11 at 2 o'clock. The revised Theme III will be due today at 4 o'clock. Theme IV., a description, will be due on Tuesday, December 3, one week from today...
...style became freer, and the designs more complicated and interesting. There is, however, a great scarcity of funeral monuments for fifty years after the Persian war, which has never been satisfactorily explained. When they became more frequent again, the monuments exhibit a great variety of subjects. A favorite one is the dead man reclining on a couch, surrounded by his friends who make him offerings. The class of representations contains a special reference to the life beyond the grave. All other monuments. however, represent merely common scenes of daily life, without any reference to death except that contained...
...smaller intercollegiate football league was practically settled Saturday morning by Dartmouth's victory over Williams. At the end of the first half the score was five to nothing in favor of Williams, but Dartmouth braced strongly in the next half and scored five touchdowns to William's one, leaving the final score twenty to nine. At the Berkeley oval, New York, Cornell defeated Columbia twenty to nothing. The last game of the season was played at Princeton, the Orange Athletic club being defeated by a score of 54 to 6. Pennsylvania won from Lehigh at Philadelphia, fourteen to nothing...
...match was shot in six rounds, three at each kind of birds. Yale won the choice of birds first and chose the keystones. In the first round Yale secured a lead of one bird and kept it until the third round when Harvard rallied and gained six birds over her opponents. The third round closed the first half with Harvard five birds in the lead. The second half was more spirited and both teams did much better shooting. Yale tried hard to overcome Harvard's lead but without success. The first round was a tie. A gain of two birds...